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Against war and empire : Geneva, Britain, and France in the eighteenth century /

Whatmore presents an intellectual history of republicans who strove to ensure Geneva's survival as an independent state. Whatmore shows how the Genevan republicans grappled with the ideas of Rousseau, Coltaire, Bentham and others in seeking to make Europe safe for small states, by vanquishing t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Whatmore, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012.
Colección:Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART I. Introduction. 1. 1782 and After
  • PART II. The Crisis of the Republic, 1698-1786. 2. Geneva and France, 1698-1754
  • 3. Rousseau and Geneva
  • 4. Geneva and Britain
  • PART III. The Crisis of the Empires, 1782-1802. 5. Cosmopolitan Versus Mercantile Empire
  • 6. International Crises and Perpetual Peace
  • 7. Revolution and Empire
  • PART IV. Epilogue. 8. The Last Représentant and Philosophic Radicalism.